Use, Applications and Benefits of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) provides basic emotional intelligence life skills. So NVC can be applicable for use for every human being who lives, who thinks or who communicates.

Nonviolent Communication has applications and is used everywhere,

• In communication within self, in everyday interactions
• In couples, in parenting, in mediation, in counselling & therapy
• In education, in healthcare, in organizations & businesses, in justice systems
• In bringing social change, and transforming social structures, systems, institutions to make them more life-serving

NVC provides skills for connecting with life, self-connection, empathy and expressing authentically and communicating clearly.

NVC can also be perceived as 'Technology for Human Connection'

Non-violent Communication provides a set of skills, practices or ideas, processes, invitations to consider. It is not needed that one need to accept or integrate the whole package in entirety. It need not be all or nothing. One can draw from NVC and integrate those parts that are serving life more.

The shifts a person learning and practicing Non-violent Communication (NVC) can get include,

• More capacity for Empathy and being empathetic
• Deeper self-connection, understanding of self with self-compassion
• Better emotional wellbeing and mental health
• Shift from limited habitual reactions to more conscious choices in responding
• Improved possibilities for needs getting made as needs get expressed more authentically, clearly yet compassionately

The shifts that can happen in interpersonal relationships, and in groups, institutions include,

• Improved quality of connection, shared understanding, and collaborations (even where there could be differences in views, perceptions or strategies)
• Conflict prevention, and When conflict happens, there it can be addressed in more life-serving, inclusive ways

Nonviolent Communication which also is called as Compassionate Communication proposes that Compassion is natural to us. But while life happens, it is also easy to alienate from our natural compassion through habitual ways of thinking & communicating.
NVC makes us aware about potentially life-alienating ways, and suggests ways of relating which can create more potential for compassion.